Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024
(a) To enroll a potential participant, a
sponsor shall obtain all of the following from the potential participant:
(1) Plate type requested. If the vehicle to
which the plate will be assigned is a company vehicle, the sponsor shall obtain
this information. Potential participants who have the fees paid by a donor
shall request a sequential plate if the donor pays for six or more
participants;
(2) Fees for the
plate type requested. Retaining an existing personalized plate number when
enrolling into a proposed plate program is an issuance of an environmental
license plate under Vehicle Code section
5106. The
sponsor may not collect other fees for the vehicle from potential
participants;
(3) The potential
participant's identification and vehicle information, including his or her last
name, first name and middle initial; registration address of the registered
owner, including number, street, apartment/suite designation, city, state, and
ZIP code; residential address including number, street, apartment/suite
designation, city, state, and ZIP code; phone number with area code; e-mail
address, if available; current license plate number to be replaced; and vehicle
type that the plate will be assigned to;
(4) The field office selection for in-person
plate pick-up by potential participant;
(5) For personalized plate requests by a
potential participant, either his or her existing personalized plate number, if
suitable, or three personalized plate configuration requests, in order of
preference, and the meaning of each as determined by the potential participant.
The requested new personalized configuration shall be assigned to the vehicle
only if it is available at the time the plate is produced after the enrollment
period concludes and the department is able to produce the requested
plate.
(6) The fee may be collected
from a person other than the registered owner of the vehicle for which the
plate is requested if the fee donor provides his or her name, address, and
phone number, in addition to the registered owner information required in this
subsection. If a plate donor pays for six or more potential participants in a
single program, all of those plates shall be sequential
plates.
(b) The
collection of all the information from one potential participant in subdivision
(a) will be considered one application.
(c) The sponsor shall submit monthly reports
to the department for the period in which it enrolls potential participants.
Each monthly report shall contain the number of applications collected to date
by plate type.
(d) The sponsor
shall comply with the nondisclosure rules of the federal Driver's Privacy
Protection Act, Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2721-2725. A sponsor
shall not use any information received from a potential participant for any
purpose other than the purposes authorized by this Article. The information
described in this section is confidential department information obtained by a
sponsor for the purpose of enrolling potential participants into a proposed
plate program.
(e) The sponsor
shall return fees to participants and fee donors if a potential participant
cancels an application before the plate program is approved pursuant to section
161.02.
1. New
section filed 11-20-2017; operative 1-1-2018 (Register 2017, No.
47).
Note: Authority cited: Sections
1651 and
5110, Vehicle
Code. Reference: Sections
1653,
1653.5,
1808,
4150,
4460,
5024,
5101,
5106,
5156,
5157 and
8802, Vehicle
Code; and Sections 2721 through 2725, Title 18, United States
Code.
